Alexander Kucera

Digital Artist and VFX Producer

About Me

My name is Alexander Kucera and I am a German lighting TD, compositor and VFX producer. I'm passionate about digital film-making. I keep an eye on developments throughout all sectors of this ever-expanding realm, but specialize in the pipelines and approaches that enable visual effects to be integrated believably into live-action material with dramatic effect.

I have a deep-rooted technical knowledge of computers, networks, render farms and computing processes which I keep up-to-date. Likewise, I maintain a solid hands-on overview of image generation techniques in various off-the-shelf 3D applications as well as more theoretical research papers.

Most of all, I enjoy maintaining my hands-on knowledge of compositing software and techniques, as this is where it all comes together — at least in productions subject to real-world turn-over times. My passion for VFX is grounded in the doable.

Experience

Founder and Lead Artist

BabylonDreams started as a local company doing small commercials and logo animations, but grew into an independent post-production service provider from there. We are creating character animations, technical animations, architectural & product visualizations and visual effects. We are also among the world's first certified Nuke Training facilities.

Lead artist responsible for 3D shading, rendering and compositing of all projects

Delivered 100% of projects on time and budget

Manage all the workstations and render farm machines

Technical direction, setting up of 3D scenes, compositing scenes and all other technical workflows

Fridthjof Film is a post-production service provider. They produce their own feature films, which are among the biggest national successes in recent Danish cinema.

Technical Editor — Maya 7 Visual Quickstart Guide

Peachpit is part of Pearson, the international media company. Peachpit has been publishing books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video, and general computing since 1986.

Personal

I like to geek out writing LaTeX documents, reading Terry Prattchet or Scott Sigler, while playing with new rendering techniques or listening to podcasts. I used to practice karate and ride mountain bike, but haven’t found the time to do so lately.

When I am doing none of the above, I like to play with our two ferrets or cook delicious food for friends and family.